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Doors: 19:15; Start: 19:30LAB111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam (LAB1)
Entrance: € 7,50 / Students € 5,- / Free with Cineville and We Are Public
Language: English / Dutch with English subtitles
New edition of LI-MA Presents, curated by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat. Join us for an evening of screenings and talks at LAB111.
On 15 May, LI-MA's curator Sanneke Huisman teams up with media artists Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (Lancel/Maat) and Paul Sermon. They will present their pioneering research into shared presence through the technologically mediated experience of touch.
Since the 1990s, social digital technologies have facilitated audiovisual connections on a large scale. But what does it mean to communicate, connect, touch and be touched via technology? On 15 May, these artists critically shine light on the implications for empathy, intimacy and shared presence. Between 1990 and 2024 their artworks have invited audiences worldwide to play with sensual, haptic connections in symbiosis with technology, in hybrid, tele-present and online performance. With artworks like Lancel/Maat's Saving Face (2012 - ongoing), EEG Kiss/Kissing Data (2014, 2019 - ongoing), Touch My Touch (2022), and Telematic Dreaming (1992 - ongoing) and Pandemic Encounters (2020) by Paul Sermon, they have explored a new sense of co-existence.
Programme Details
During this evening, guest curators Lancel and Maat will dive in to the history of social touch in media and performance art (with works from the LI-MA collection, among other things), and look at the relevant questions of today in close conversation with Paul Sermon. Next to that, they will present HyperTouching, the first performance art platform for 'Digital Interpersonal Touch'. HyperTouching explores historical and future visions on touching in symbiosis with technology; and the potential of neurologically, psychologically and sensory ‘rewiring’ the cyborg body for experience of love, empathy, intimacy and trust.
Please note that the event starts at 19:30 sharp, so latecomers cannot be admitted. We Are Public members cannot reserve tickets in advance, but may enter for free by scanning their passes at reception.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
LAB 111, Arie Biemondstraat 111,Amsterdam, Netherlands
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